This Saturday we celebrate the final Indoor Market of the season. Please see below for our summer schedule.
Honeystone does not participate in the Corvallis farmers markets, but you can find us at several local events over the next few months.

To thank our loyal customers,
this week we are offering
a free candle with every $5 purchase:

Choose from Monkey's Fist Knot, strawberry, walnut or votive. We are honored to bring sweetness and light into your homes with our pure beeswax, original design candles.

Monkey's Fist Know, Walnut, Strawberry, and Votive Beeswax Candles

Honeystone would also like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance and technical wizardry of Maureen, The Mandala Lady, who has edited and coordinated this blog through the Market season. See Maureen's beautiful artwork on the south wall, near Gathering Together Farms.

From The Mandala Lady:
Every Saturday while at the market, starting on January 19, I've been continuously painting this version of the "Autumn Bliss" mandala. You can view one of the earlier images of it in this blog post.

This Saturday I hope to complete it as it is almost done. It just needs some more fine-tuning and a little bit of background color around the outside of the mandala.

If you're curious to see the first version of the Autumn Bliss mandala, visit The Beanery on Circle Blvd in Corvallis anytime in April, you'll see it on display on the side back wall.

Customer: How do you do the shading?

The Mandala Lady

When coloring, I strive to make my mandalas or the components within the mandalas three dimensional.

Two things to know about shading:

where's is the light coming from

use purple

When I know from which direction the light is hitting an object, I then know to go to the direct opposite side of the object to place my shading and shadow.

Years ago an instructor suggested we layer a color's complementary color to create the shading. I have since made it a bit simpler. I found that using purple works great for all colors except when purple is the color of the object. In that case I use yellow...yes, you read that right. Yellow is purple's complement. When you put yellow on purple and then layer purple on top of that, the 'yellow' turns into a darker purple. Cool, huh?

Example:

In the first circle, I put down some green

In the second circle, I determined that the light is coming from the upper right, so my shading will go on the lower left of the circle. I layered some purple in a crescent moon shape to coincide with the shape of the circle.

In the third circle, I used the same color green from the first circle and layered it over the purple area. Notice how the purple morphs into a dark green

Shading Examples: add purple, then add the base color of the shading

Your assignment:

As you go about your day, pay attention to objects you see around you, shadows they create, the shadows on the object, and most importantly the direction of the light source in relationship the object and the shadow/shading it creates.

This week, Honeystone introduces you to the North Wall neighborhood of the Indoor Market.

Just as you walk in the door, Karen from Norton Creek on the left greets you with a smile and a display of her fabulous free range eggs.

Norton Creek Farm

On your right is the glorious selection of spring flowering bulbs and cut flowers from Green Gables Farm.

Green Gables Farm

Continue along the North Wall to Kathy's Specially Made cards, gift bags, lavender wands, bookmarks and more.

Specially Made

Then there's the best smelling booth in the market - Honeystone Pure Beeswax Candles. Figurines, pillars, votives, tealights, floating candles, as well as beeswax-based skin care and wood care products. And bring the kids to our Petting Zoo where they can touch and smell the candles and get a hand stamp.

Honeystone Candles

In the northwest corner of the market, you'll be astounded by Jim's spectacular spinach and gorgeous greens, grown locally by Heavenly Harvest Farms.

Heavenly Harvest Farms

Sharing this space is Paul of Harcombe Farms, with his locally grown and milled wheat and barley grain and flours.

Meet your farmer, meet the artists and producers.

Come to the Indoor Market andenjoy the abundance of local produce and talent!